Word got around that it had won the Columbia River fishing boat race, as a bowpicker, before being rebuilt as a sternpicker for the Inlet fishery.

A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, … and beastes also, as namely sheepe, … as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like bulles. Apparently a use of the word to refer to a wattle (“a fold of skin hanging from the neck”).]

a friendly breeze or gale

Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome. By loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon